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==Significant United States Supreme Court decisions==
The United States Supreme Court has made two decisions that protect the right to physical integrity.
The [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12998230422916570030&hl=en&as_sdt=8000003&scfhb=1 Union Pac. Ry. Co v Botsford], 141 U.S. 251 (1890) decision said:
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<i>No right is held more sacred or is more carefully guarded by the common law than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.</i>
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* [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12998230422916570030&hl=en&as_sdt=8000003&scfhb=1 Union Pac. Ry. Co v Botsford], 141 U.S. 251 (1890)
* [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=3012582275354260465&hl=en&as_sdt=8000003 Prince v. Massachusetts], 321 U.S. 158, 159-60 (1944).